At PwC, our people in business application consulting specialise in consulting services for a variety of business applications, helping clients optimise operational efficiency. These individuals analyse client needs, implement software solutions, and provide training and support for seamless integration and utilisation of business applications, enabling clients to achieve their strategic objectives. In SAP technology at PwC, you will specialise in utilising and managing SAP software and solutions within an organisation. You will be responsible for tasks such as installation, configuration, administration, development, and support of SAP products and technologies.Driven by curiosity, you are a reliable, contributing member of a team. In our fast-paced environment, you are expected to adapt to working with a variety of clients and team members, each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are expected to take ownership and consistently deliver quality work that drives value for our clients and success as a team. As you navigate through the Firm, you build a brand for yourself, opening doors to more opportunities.
Skills
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
- Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development.
- Appreciate diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
- Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential.
- Actively listen, ask questions to check understanding, and clearly express ideas.
- Seek, reflect, act on, and give feedback.
- Gather information from a range of sources to analyse facts and discern patterns.
- Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness.
- Learn and apply professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), uphold the Firm's code of conduct and independence requirements.
Job Summary -
At PwC we relentlessly focus on working with our clients to bring the power of technology and humans together and create simple, yet powerful solutions. We imagine a day when our clients can simply focus on their business knowing that they have a trusted partner for their IT needs. Every day we are motivated and passionate about making our clients’ better. Within our Managed Services platform, PwC delivers integrated services and solutions that are grounded in deep industry experience and powered by the talent that you would expect from the PwC brand. The PwC Managed Services platform delivers scalable solutions that add greater value to our client’s enterprise through technology and human-enabled experiences. Our team of highly-skilled and trained global professionals, combined with the use of the latest advancements in technology and process, allows us to provide effective and efficient outcomes. With PwC’s Managed Services our client’s are able to focus on accelerating their priorities, including optimizing operations and accelerating outcomes. PwC brings a consultative first approach to operations, leveraging our deep industry insights combined with world class talent and assets to enable transformational journeys that drive sustained client outcomes. Our clients need flexible access to world class business and technology capabilities that keep pace with today’s dynamic business environment. Within our global, Managed Services platform, we provide Application Evolution Services (formerly Application Managed Services), where we focus more so on the evolution of our clients’ applications and cloud portfolio. Our focus is to empower our client’s to navigate and capture the value of their application portfolio while cost-effectively operating and protecting their solutions. We do this so that our clients can focus on what matters most to your business: accelerating growth that is dynamic, efficient and cost-effective. As a member of our Application Evolution Services (AES) team, we are looking for candidates who thrive working in a high-paced work environment capable of working on a mix of critical Application Evolution Service offerings and engagement including help desk support, enhancement and optimization work, as well as strategic roadmap and advisory level work. It will also be key to lend experience and effort in helping win and support customer engagements from not only a technical perspective, but also a relationship perspective.
Minimum Degree Required (BQ) *:
BE / B Tech / ME / M Tech / MBA / B.SC / B. Com / BBA
Required Field(s) Of Study (BQ)
Preferred Field(s) of Study:
Minimum Year(s) of Experience (BQ) *:
6-10 years of experience
Certification(s) Preferred
Preferred Knowledge/Skills *:
SAP Rise Architect, S4 installation and configuration. HANA Database administration. SAP Upgrade. At Least one SAP Associate level certification. Exposure to SAP Cloud offerings such as BTP, SAC and Cloud connector
General Skill Set
As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:
- Use feedback and reflection to develop self-awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
- Proven track record as an SME in chosen domain.
- Ability to come up with Client POC/POV for integrating/increasing adoption of emerging Tech. like Blockchain, AI et al with the product platform they are associated with.
- Mentor Junior resources within the team, conduct KSS and lessons learnt.
- Flexible to work in stretch opportunities/assignments.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
- Ticket Quality and deliverables review.
- Status Reporting for the project.
- Adherence to SLAs, experience in incident management, change management and problem management.
- Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
- Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
- Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
- Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
- Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
- Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
- Demonstrate leadership capabilities by working with clients directly and leading the engagement.
- Work in a team environment that includes client interactions, workstream management, and cross-team collaboration.
- Good Team player. Take up cross competency work and contribute to COE activities.
- Escalation/Risk management.
Strong Knowledge In
- to end SAP upgrades (SPS, Major SAP version), applying support packages and other support activities.
- Strong knowledge and experience in HANA Database and MS SQL Database Administration.
- Configuration knowledge on SAP cloud offerings such as BTP, SAC, Cloud connector, etc.
- Prepare and monitor performance reports and implement solutions to improve the system performance.
- Proven expertise in performing Kernel update, support pack update and SPS upgrade.
- Strong knowledge in performing end to end system refresh
- Excellent knowledge in client copy, applying OSS notes, EWA report analysis, Printer administration, Fiori administration.
- Solution Manager implementation and configuration.
- SLT Replication setup, configuration and administration
- SAP BOBI, Data services installation and configuration
- Proficient in the use of methodologies supported by SAP best practices.
- Excellent Knowledge in UNIX/ Linux and Windows OS platform.
- Communicating appropriately and in a timely manner with the requester (end user), the business, and the various stakeholders that this role will need to interface with, including NOC, Hosting Operations, IT, etc.
- Must be proactive and self-motivated.
- Must be easily understood and possess excellent English communication skills, both verbal and writing skills.
- Must Have customer facing experience.
- Exposure to ITIL framework
Preferred Skills
- ITIL certification
- SAP S/4 conversion, HANA Database administration, SAP Solution Manager, SAP S/4HANA System Administration Certifications
